Weegy: Every kind of art collecting, from medieval ivories to Matisses, is always assumed to have had its golden age, a time when marvelous things were plentiful, and almost cheap. [ [ By definition, that age is always gone.
Nowhere does this folk wisdom seem truer than in the field of master drawings. The springs have certainly dwindled. Fifty years ago, the appearance on the auction block of a sheet by one of the great father figures of 15th and 16th century drawing?D?rer, Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo?was not uncommon. Today one would hardly be more surprised if a live dodo waddled into the Parke-Bernet auction room. Drawings also are not a young man's hobby; they demand a degree of patient connoisseurship (tinged with philatelic mania) that only the old usually have. But late last month a remarkable disproof of the rule went on show at Manhattan's Pierpont Morgan Library: a group of 115 works from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw. ] ] (More)